Weekend Link Love – Edition 215

Research of the Week

“Absent the requirement to spend most available hours of the day feeding, the combination of newly freed time and a large number of brain neurons affordable on a cooked diet may thus have been a major positive driving force to the rapid increase in brain size in human evolution.” A new study[1] shows how cooked food allowed human brains to become, well, human.

Media, Schmedia

If you have a few minutes, check out my recent interview[6] with author Tom Woods.

Everything Else

Pre-Made Paleo is driving an effort to serve 5000+ New Jersey residents in need after Hurricane Sandy. You can help by ordering relief meals here[7].

A new kind of tomato genetically modified to produce an HDL-mimicking peptide was shown[8] to reduce atherogenic plaque accumulation and inflammatory markers in mice. Assuming it does the same in people, would you eat it?

How to Eat More Vegetables[13] – People think we’re all about the animal flesh around here – and we dig it, to be sure – but you can’t ignore our love and need for a healthy amount of plant matter. Here’s how to eat more.

Email of the Week

I can pretty much guarantee the comment of the week will come from this article. I’d be willing to bet it also uses the phrase “scrotal drooping.”